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From Brooklyn classrooms to library meet‑ups, there’s a growing Gaeltacht community in the Big Apple

Giving plant-based dishes more attractive names on restaurant menus can increase their appeal, research finds

The Irish arrangement affirms bonds through generosity and obligation

Ella McSweeney: A recent verdict showed climate law can’t fix what politics won’t

There’s no such thing as a bestest-ever mother, there is no maternal majesty; most of us do our best most of the time

Jordan, who started out as a writer, has rarely gone longer than three years without releasing a film

The outbreak of war half a world away saw a catch of crab returned to Killybegs due to a cancelled flight

Businesswoman speaks affectionately about her mother’s legacy and announces foundation’s €7m donation to Trinity College

Your notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Irish identity really means something, so it rightly demands proof of real commitment

Dublin’s ring-road motorway is ‘at capacity’ but commuters and hauliers have little option but to keep getting stuck in M50 traffic. What is the plan?

If the Chinese juggernaut continues to make things better than Europeans, what is there for Europe to make?

Traffic reporter and independent producer Hugh Hick on his agreeability, what he expects to happen when he dies, and his hyper-fixation

The well-known Copenhagen restaurant was about to embark on a four-month pop-up in LA when allegations emerged about its head chef

Even the most grown-up of us are but children at bedtime, clamouring to be told a tale

Oxfam’s Postback scheme allows unwanted stuff to be taken to a charity shop straight from your door

I rarely carry water and my bodily systems seem to run just fine

Beef prices are high and there are too many wild deer in Ireland – greater consumption of venison could be about to make a lot of sense

The London-based artist-designer on his two middle names, his strongest childhood memory, and why his ‘parents are still very much alive in my head’

Chess prodigy Trisha Kanyamarala put aside everything else, including Irish dancing, to focus on the game

Losing routine contact with the living world results in less concern, less protection and less access. The antidote is evidence that conservation works

The Ocean Within is a photographic project exploring fish as living archives of the sea

As war spreads across the Middle East there are multiple possibilities for how it will continue or end

Eye on nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on red frogs, a white-tailed eagle, curious fungus and a carnivorous invertebrate with 77 pairs of legs

We are fixated on tech and AI, but forget how the economy is mostly still heavy, dirty and smelly

Leaked University of Galway report said there was a ‘sustained decline’ in undergraduate enrolment for degree but what is the value of one?

The broadcaster says he thought ‘the sky would fall in’ if he left RTÉ, but his departure has been an ‘enforced liberation’

Clúid Housing is helping residents to save money by offering a free lending service for infrequently used items

The pleasure of thinking about prehistoric people was never that of laying claim to land or heritage but of familiarity and strangeness

In the week he brought Foo Fighters to Kerry, the man behind Other Voices says the Irish State cannot just pay lip service to the arts’ centrality

Ireland is dangerously overdependent on a small number of companies for far too much revenue

Amateur dramatic groups have had a strong presence in Irish life for decades

Technology is revolutionising how we gather and assess data on nature, presenting huge benefits and no little irony

US250: the country is in the grip of a long winter and an extended moment of uncertainty

Group was joined at Wicklow site by An Taisce CEO Gary Freemantle for symbolic planting of 8,000th tree

Atlantic Philanthropies made 1,616 grants to the island of Ireland totalling $1.93 billion. Its departure left a void that has been hard to fill

Kara Owen: The British ambassador to Ireland on her strongest childhood memory, her favourite Irish restaurant, and the actor she would like to play her in a biopic of her life

Eye on Nature: Eanna Ní Lamhna on a quick-growing fungus, an eagle sighting and a sea mouse

Siblings behind food blog Hot Dinners and Murphia List discuss rise of Irish talent in London hospitality scene

The man at the centre of the Bafta racial slur controversy said he was ‘deeply mortified’ if anyone considered his tics intentional